impossibility - Legal Definition

n

The condition of being unable to happen or to be
achieved.

factual impossibility

Of an act that cannot physically be done.

legal impossibility

In criminal law, a defense to charges on the basis that
the acts committed were not illegal. In civil law, an act which is impossible
by operation of law or rule, such as an attempt by a minor to enter into a
binding contract.

Sentence Examples

The great variety of views amongst competent critics is significant of the difficulty of the problem, which can hardly be regarded as yet solved; this divergence of opinion perhaps points to the impossibility of maintaining the unity of chs.

The impossibility of obtaining any.

He repeatedly insists on the impossibility of senseless matter putting on sense.'

Meanwhile Mahmud, realizing the impossibility of crushing the Greek revolt unaided, had bent his pride to ask the help of Mehemet Ali, who was to receive as his reward Crete, the Morea and the pashaliks of Syria and Damascus.

Cavour, on the other hand, while anxious to deal irously with the Garibaldians, recognized the impossibility of such urse, which would not only have offended the conservative spirit :he Piedmontese military caste, which disliked and despised 101am troops, but would almost certainly have introduced into the y an element of indiscipline and disorder.